Clip.



No. 882,886. PATENTBD MAR. 24, 1908.

R. w. HORTON & J. HMOLESWORTH.

CLIP.

APPLICATION TILED APB.4. 1907.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROSS W. HORTON AND JEHIEL E. MOLESWORTH, OF NEW ATHENS, OHIO.

CLIP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 24, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, Ross W. HORTON and JEHIEL E. lVlOLESWORTI-I, citizens of the United States, residing at New Athens, in the county of Harrison and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clips, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object an improved construction of clip for papers, designed for general use in oflices and similar places, for securing papers or similar material, which will embody to a high degree the characteristics of capacity and expansibility in proportion to the size of the clip, as well as the characteristics of simplicity, durability and efficiency in operation, and the invention consists in certain constructions and arrangements of the parts which we will hereinafter fully describe and then point out the novel features in the appended claims.

For a full understamling of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction, of the means for effecting the result, refer ence is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a face view of one embodiment of our invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the clip with its parts expanded or so arated to an exaggerated degree so as to il ustrate the construction.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

Our improved clip comprises a single strip of spring wire .of predetermined length and thickness according to the especial requirements of the device, the same being bent at five different points, equi-distant from each other to form two isosceles triangles 1 and 2 of coextensive area. The extremities of the wire are then welded, preferably by electricity, so as to form an integral structure, and the essential feature of our invention resides in the fact that the wire is crossed at one point before the welding operation, the said crossing of the wires resulting in producing the spring which tends to hold the two triangular members of the clip in clamping relation to each other.

The triangular members are coextensive, as above stated, and lie one upon the other in the complete clip, thereby rendering the clip applicable to use from any corner of the same. It is also to be noted that the clip may be put on several sheets of paper or a packageor the like, from any point because the portion forming the s ring element by the crossing of the wire, w1ll adjust itself to any side. Hence should the clip become strained by using it one way, it may be re versed by shoving any corner through its adjacent corner and using the opposite side.

From the foregoing description in oonnection with the accompanying drawings, it will be seen that wehave provided a very simple construction of clip which may be cheaply manufactured and which will be efficient as well as durable in construction, as any corner of the clip may be used and the sides reversed by ushing one corner through the other, should any corner become strained at any time. Manifestly the crossing of the members may be .changed at any time by this simple operation of thrusting one corner through its mating corner.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

As an improved. article of manufacture, the herein described paper clip consisting of a single strip of spring wire bent at five different equidistant points forming two isosceles triangles of co-extensive areas, the extremities of the strip being integrally connected together, and the wire being crossed at one point, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures in' presence of two witnesses.

ROSS W. HORTON. JEHIEL E. MOLESWORTH.

Witnesses:

JEssrE L. HORTON,

Lizzrn A. MOLESWORTH. 

